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White international transracial adoptive mothers' reflections on race
Author(s) -
CrolleySimic Josie,
Vonk M. Elizabeth
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
child and family social work
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.912
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1365-2206
pISSN - 1356-7500
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2206.2010.00729.x
Subject(s) - white (mutation) , race (biology) , identity (music) , perspective (graphical) , social work , qualitative research , gender studies , sociology , psychology , social psychology , developmental psychology , political science , social science , biochemistry , chemistry , physics , artificial intelligence , computer science , acoustics , law , gene
ABSTRACT Through the use of qualitative data analysis of in‐depth interviews with eight white international transracial adoptive mothers, four properties emerged that describe these mothers' racial views. These properties varied in the degree that they integrated perspectives different from the white dominant culture. The mothers did not experience significant changes in their perspective on race subsequent to adoption. This paper includes a discussion of white racial identity and implications for social work practice with transracially adoptive parents.